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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a read more
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy read more
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.
Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.
I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.
I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
I find the doctors and the sages
Have differ'd in all climes and ages,
And two in read more
I find the doctors and the sages
Have differ'd in all climes and ages,
And two in fifty scarce agree
On what is pure morality.
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age read more
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
